Covering more than 2 million square miles in South America, the world's biggest tropical rainforest hides lots of scary ...

Leafcutter ants are also important members of the rainforest community. These hard-working insects help to keep the forest floor clear of dead leaves and other debris.

How the Amazon rainforest is likely to cope with the effect of future drought A major collaboration involving 80 scientists from Europe and South America has ...

For every three trees dying from drought in the Amazon rainforest, a fourth tree – even though not directly affected – will die, too. In simplified terms, that’s what a new study published ...

Amazon old-growth forest loss fell to 9,117 square kilometers from Jan. 1 to Nov. 8, down 55.8% from the same period in 2022, according to MAAP.

The Amazon rainforest soaks up one-fourth of all carbon dioxide absorbed by land, yet we’ve lost an estimated 13 percent of the original forest due largely to deforestation, according to a 2022 ...

This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest. But this patch of degraded forest, about the size of a soccer field, is a scientific experiment.